2. What is The Horror Genre and What is
its Purpose?
The horror genre is used to seek negative
emotional reactions from the viewers, this is
done by playing on their primal fears.
3. What is its Purpose?
The horror genres main purpose is to scare the
viewers, this can be done through many
techniques such as jump scares
4. Subgenres
Subgenres divide categories and allow more
than one category. For example a subgenre of
horror is action horror meaning the film will
include action as well as horror films such as
blade and dawn of the dead
5. Action Horror
Action horror films will contain conventions
of both genres (guns and violence as well as
dark colours and jump scares)
6. Body Horror
This genre will use deconstructed body parts
and use them to create monsters or unnatural
movements to create fear. Example being
Human Centipede
7. Comedy Horror
Comedy horrors will contain elements of
comedy allowing viewers to laugh as well as
scream. Example Scary movie
8. Gothic Horror
These film will contain gothic features to horror,
these would have been seen in earlier horror
films. Example Dracula
9. Psychological Horror
This relies on a characters fears, guilt and emotional
stability, this is because tension will be built on fears
and further the plot. Example The Shining
10. Sci-Fi Horror
Sci-Fi horrors have no limit on creativity as these films
would usually contain unnatural beings from other
planets and usually set in space in the future
11. Slasher Horror
Deals a lot of violence as it revolves around a
psychopathic serial killer who tends to kill numerous
people, the killer will generally use a specific weapon
to kill their victims. Example The Texas chain saw
massacre
12. Zombie Horror
Reveals corpses/ mindless humans that tend to
feed of the living, as the film progresses the
number zombies tend to increase. Example
Dead Snow.
13. Paranormal activity
The film paranormal activity is a very successful film in all
areas including camera, horror conventions, props and
techniques.
•Firstly throughout the whole film the audience are placed
in the cameras point of view.
•This technique used creates excitement and thrill towards
the audience.
•The audience wont be able to see what’s always happening
in the film, the audience will be on the edge of their seat not
wanting to miss anything that happening.
